BAIT & TACKLE v1.2.0: THE STAR OF THE SHOW UPDATE The team has been wanting to add more of what makes Bait & Tackle the game that it is: Bosses. As a result, we’ve added a new boss, with a superboss variant, a new area, new music, and new fish to catch! We’re adding optional mid-game content to give you guys more of the game you love! Changelog Boss Updates > Added a new, optional, mid-game bos…
Hello everyone! We’re making a small update to address some bugs that have popped up and improve the new player experience! Changelog Fishdex > The fishdex tutorial popups for filtering, sorting, bait options, and exiting the fishdex now pulse back and forth between an orange color to draw more attention to them. (1.1.2) Credits > Fixed the shipwreck tileset at the beginning of the credits leve…
We're doing our very first a panel! This Saturday, April 11th at the RIT Interactive Media Symposium, located within RIT MAGIC Spell Studios, we will be discussing the development of Bait & Tackle. Stop by to learn more about the project, from idea all the way to launch! We will also have a booth where you will be able to play Bait & Tackle for yourself. This event is free and open to the publi…
We are so excited to announce that Bait & Tackle won Best in Game Design at RPI GameFest this past weekend! RPI GameFest, hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is an annual showcase of student talent in game development that brings together students from around the Northeast to exhibit their games. Given the amazing talent that was present we are so honored to have won. We were also nomin…
Bait & Tackle: FACTUALLY FRESH is our first major update since our release back in October! While we’ve been working on bugs, making balancing tweaks, and making sure the game is in a good spot with the occasional patch, this update is much more substantial! We compiled a list of some features/changes/extra polish that the team really wanted to get in to make the experience that much better, so…
We’ve been spending a lot of time combing through more nuanced balancing feedback; whether it is through watching people play on Youtube & Twitch, from our reviews, discussions, or people talking to us directly, we wanted to smooth out some of the rough edges people have encountered! Changelog Bosses · Fixed issue causing Mini Minnow to break out of its fatigued state during tutorial dialogue.…
The Bait & Tackle O-fish-al soundtrack is OUT NOW on YouTube, Bandcamp, and SoundCloud! Go give it a listen and show some support for our amazing composer Leo. YouTube: Bandcamp: SoundCloud:
Here’s a small hotfix that fixed a recent bug allowing the player to phase through certain walls by fishing, and some other small, more miscellaneous bugs. Changelog Bosses · Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause the Goldfish Bosses' Roll attack to roll in place towards the rightmost bounds of the level. · Fixed an issue that caused the Goldfish Bosses to occasionally float above the ground…
We’ve fixed a pretty big input registering bug, and a handful of smaller bugs while we work on tackling some meatier ones. Changelog Bosses · Fixed issue where the Crab Bosses' Scurry attack would not properly trigger if the player was on the bottom left of the arena. This change ensures that it works the same as if the player is on the bottom right of the arena. · Fixed issue with the Swordfis…
In just 10 days Bait & Tackle has o fish ially surpassed 1,000 players! Huge thank you to everyone who has played! FOLLOW US: X: Bluesky: Instagram: Tiktok: Youtube:
We’ve tried to gather every bug that has been reported since launch, and hopefully your experience should be much smoother going forward! Thank you for reporting bugs, and please let us know if you spot any more. Changelog Achievements · The level-specific Fishdex achievements now specify “non-boss fish”. This should clear up confusion on whether or not bosses counted towards those achievements…
Today is a reel exciting day… BAIT & TACKLE IS OFFICIALLY OUT NOW ON STEAM AND ITCH! It has been a long journey up until this point—our first commit was pushed on September 20, 2023, over two years ago now—and it is finally time to release this catch into the wild. Bait & Tackle started as a small class project, and has blossomed into something we are publishing on Steam, and are all very, very…
Visit Rochester Game Festival THIS SATURDAY to play Bait & Tackle before release! ROC Game Fest is Western New York's largest game festival, this year over 50+ video game and tabletop developers will be showing off their works. Ours included! Where: Rochester Institute of Technology, THE SHED When: Saturday, September 27th, 11AM - 5PM There will be lots to see and do this year! Click here for m…
—
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.